News Radeon RX 6500 XT GPUs Are Selling Below MSRP In Europe

[Admin]

GPU thirsty gamers and enthusiasts, this isn't a mirage. Germany's Mindfactory has listed AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics cards at €199 (MSRP is €209).

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[saltweaver]

It isn't really good framewise in Elden ring. I wonder how would perform in holiday blockbuster releases. 6500XT should be better budget product. They stripped it too much.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdM_sjPBIcU

 

[alceryes]

This is good for those that really need a mid-level gaming GPU. I would just caution those buying one to make sure they know what they're getting.
This is NOT a high performance GPU. In fact, a GTX 1070 (released over 5½ years ago) beats the RX 6500 XT in almost every game, by a nice margin. However, for the price and decent performance with mid-level settings, this is a decent deal.

 

[btmedic04]

thats because nobody wants this garbage. imagine how much better of a gpu it could have been had it had an 8x pcie interface, 128 bit memory bus and encoding/decoding support. there could have been a 4gb version and an 8gb version too at different price brackets. instead, we got a lazy cash grab from AMD when they poached this laptop part and tried to pass it on to the consumer

 

[King_V]

Unfortunately, if it were a worthwhile card, there would probably be free fewer of them made (less cut-down die) plus it wouldn't been snatched up by scalpers, bots, and miners.

EDIT: because my fingers don't always type the word that my brain tells them to type.

 

[InvalidError]

Unfortunately, if it were a worthwhile card, there would probably be free of them made (less cut-down die) plus it wouldn't been snatched up by scalpers, bots, and miners.

It is a worthwhile card when nothing comparable is available for a remotely reasonable price and you are desperate for a slot-stuffer.

There is no "less cut down" version of the RX6500 since the crap we got as the new $200 desktop tier is the full die intended for use with next-gen mobile APUs, not desktops and especially not IGP-less and PCIe 4.0-less ones. Hopefully AMD won't cut as many corners on the RX7500's design.

 

[hotaru251]

It isn't really good framewise in Elden ring

to be fair that video is using a lower tier cpu than min req & the game on pc has a known issue of frametime and stutter (why many ppl give it bad reviews atm)

 

[msgnyc]

The card is trash, that s why. It's on par with the rx470/480s from 6 years ago.

 

[saltweaver]

to be fair that video is using a lower tier cpu than min req & the game on pc has a known issue of frametime and stutter (why many ppl give it bad reviews atm)

True. But game itself has quite low system requirements as well. In holiday season next gen games will come out probably even more GPU intensive.
6500XT users should consider upgrading to 7500XT next year to keep up with performance. Quite a hefty investment for this budget entry card.

 

[cryoburner]

The card is trash, that s why. It's on par with the rx470/480s from 6 years ago.

I wouldn't necessarily say it's "trash", it was just arguably overpriced at its MSRP, as AMD likely increased their pricing for the product over what was originally planned to get their cut of the profits in the current mining-afflicted market. If this hardware were released at a price point a lot closer to $100, it might have been considered a decent option, though board partners and resellers would have undoubtedly pushed it's street price up to similar levels anyway.

Looking at current market prices, practically all cards on the market right now could be considered "trash" if we compare their value against what you could have found in the same price bracket just over a year ago. In the US, RTX 3050s are mostly priced over $500 currently, but perform worse than an RTX 2060 you could have picked up for around $300 new in 2020. Outside of DLSS and RT support, the 3050 is not much better than the 1660 SUPER that launched for just $230 over two years ago. The card's "$250" MSRP might technically look like a much better value than what the 6500 XT offers for its "$200" MSRP, but you can't find the cards for anything remotely close to that MSRP, so it doesn't matter.

The card that's currently most similar in street price to the 6500 XT in Nvidia's lineup is the GTX 1650 (non-super), a card that generally performs worse than the 6500 XT. So while the card's MSRP would clearly be bad in a normal market where cards could actually be found near their MSRPs, the real-world pricing is par for the course with other graphics cards currently available.

 

[watzupken]

It is a worthwhile card when nothing comparable is available for a remotely reasonable price and you are desperate for a slot-stuffer.

There is no "less cut down" version of the RX6500 since the crap we got as the new $200 desktop tier is the full die intended for use with next-gen mobile APUs, not desktops and especially not IGP-less and PCIe 4.0-less ones. Hopefully AMD won't cut as many corners on the RX7500's design.

I agree. At this point when prices of GPUs are slowly on the decline, I feel the demand for this card is going to drop drastically. I would have thought that this card can be good for HTPC/ work based system (if one is using a CPU with no iGPU), but AMD had to gimp it so hard that it’s not even good for such use cases.

 

[artk2219]

The card is trash, that s why. It's on par with the rx470/480s from 6 years ago.

Trash is a bit strong, badly priced? Yes. Mistakes were made with the spec and design for a modern gaming or workstation card? Yes. But it isn't trash, if the dropped the price to $99, or if they made an upgraded version with some of the issues fixed (8GB Ram, x8 PCIE interface) for around the same price, this would go a long way towards redeeming this card. That is the issue with it really, the GPU itself is actually quite competent, its everything else around it that makes it a bad product, mainly the price .

 

[TechLurker]

Considering AMD might be looking into refreshing their GPU lines on TSMC's updated 6nm process, and maybe adding faster memory to the refreshed desktop variants, I wonder if AMD will re-release updated versions of the 6500XTs with faster memory and at least PCIe x8 wiring. Maybe as a 6500XTX or 6550XT.

 

[vern72]

No thanks. I'd definitely want something faster than PCIe x4.